importing a matrix from stdout of another program

[Mike Miller]

I have a perl program that will produce a matrix in its standard output. 
I want to be able to bring that matrix into Octave directly, if possible. 
The command syntax is like this:

seqped.pl infile

The program reads in a data file and sends a matrix to stdout.  It would 
be nice to have an Octave function (called 'seqped') that could call that 
perl script and read in the matrix like this:

X = seqped(infile) ;

Is it possible to do that without writing a temp file and reading the 
matrix from the temp file?  That would be my preference, but if a temp 
file must be used, what's a good way of writing that?

Mike

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Michael B. Miller, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health
and Institute of Human Genetics
University of Minnesota
http://taxa.epi.umn.edu/~mbmiller/



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